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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode.
And if you're out there and you love this podcast, send me a text message right now because I will text you back with inspirational, motivational mindset tips and tricks throughout the week to help you improving it better. It's 512-580-9305. Once again, 512-580-9305. Today, I want to talk to you about the belief that you have to have over all other beliefs in your life.
Because I think the most dangerous belief that you can carry in your life is that life is happening against you. Because if you live your life like a victim, your brain will collect all of the evidence everywhere around you to look and to prove that true.
And if you think about it, what benefit does that have in your life to think that you're a victim other than just keeping you small your entire life? And so today I'm going to prove to you scientifically why acting as if everything is working in your favor is not blind optimism.
I'm going to show you how it's one of the most powerful neurological advantages that you can develop in yourself as a human being. Now, Before your skeptical brain stops in and says, oh, this is bullshit. You know, this motivational thing of everything's always working out for me. Let me be clear, right? I'm not saying pretend that bad things don't happen. I'm not saying ignore reality.
I'm not saying manifest a Lamborghini by staring at a vision board or like walk into traffic because the universe has your back. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the most powerful neurological filter that shapes your entire experience of reality. And that's what we're going to dive into. There's a quote that's often attributed to Einstein, and it's this.
It says, the most important decision that you will ever make is whether you believe that you live in a friendly or hostile universe. So do you, right now, think about this, believe that you live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe? it's very binary, it's black or white, which one is it? Because that's a decision that you need to make right now.
So go for it right now, what do you believe? Because the psychology behind all of that is really, really profound. Because every human,
No matter what, we develop an unconscious answer to that question and I wanna bring it to the surface right now because some people walk through life assuming that bad people are out there and people can't be trusted and success is temporary or happiness never lasts or they're waiting for the other shoe to drop or they only think that good things happen to other people and that they're not lucky.
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Chapter 2: What belief shapes your perspective on life?
When you look at your brain, it does not see reality. You might think, oh yeah, I logically look at all situations. You don't. Your brain is designed to create a usable model of reality. And those are two very different things. See, your brain receives billions of bits of information per second, approximately 11 billion bits of information per second.
But your conscious awareness can only process 40 to 50 bits of information per second.
Chapter 3: How does a victim mindset affect your reality?
So that's 11 billion to around 50 bits. per second. And your reticular activating system, which is basically your brain's filter, decides what gets through based off of what you have taught it is important. And it is based off of what you focus on. And so if you focus on life is dangerous, guess what you're gonna notice?
You're gonna notice rejection and failure and threats and criticism and reasons why things won't work out. But if you trained your brain to believe that things always work out for you, guess what starts becoming visible? opportunities, helpful people, solutions, unexpected openings and opportunities, new possibilities.
You have to understand all of those, those opportunities were always there, but what happened is your filter changed from you being a victim to hey, there's always possibility out there. And now you notice something that was always there, but now your brain isn't filtering it out anymore.
And so something that most people in self-development have never actually heard of before is modern neuroscience is increasingly viewing the brain as a prediction machine. not a reaction machine, a prediction machine. Your brain isn't waiting for reality to happen. It's constantly generating predictions every single second about what reality is about to be.
And then it searches for evidence to confirm those predictions. I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough. I'm stupid. My business is going to fail. I'm not lovable. It'll find all the answers to that. And so you got to think about how insane that is. If your unconscious prediction is like, I'm going to fail, your brain begins scanning for all of the proof. And guess what? It will find it.
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Chapter 4: What is the neuroscience behind positive thinking?
It will 100% find whatever it is that you're looking for. If your prediction is this won't work out, your brain starts collecting all the evidence for that. If your prediction is people don't like me, every facial expression becomes suspicious to you. Every delayed text from somebody becomes rejection. Every disagreement becomes proof that people just don't like you.
Your brain will always find what it is looking for and it is always looking for what you tell it to look for. So you're not seeing reality, you're looking to prove your predictions true. So what the fuck are you trying to predict? Have you ever asked yourself that? Now, when you look at this, like there's something that a lot of people have heard of before. It's called the placebo effect, right?
Placebo effect is incredibly powerful. I don't know why this isn't talked about more, especially as children. But the placebo effect is when a person has some sort of symptoms and their symptoms improve simply because they believe that they're receiving some sort of effective treatment. even if that treatment is just sugar pills, which means it does absolutely nothing.
And research shows that placebo effect, like actually somebody getting better from thinking that they're getting better, accounts for 20 to 40% of improvement in medical conditions and clinical trials. It is the highest among everything. There's no pill that does better than 20 to 40%. And we will be right back. And now back to the show.
And sometimes it's even higher for pain and depression in brain related symptoms, right? And so that means that your belief in your expectations can trigger measurable and biological changes in your brain and in your body, in your immune system, in your hormone production, in your pain pathways. So think you're healthy and really believe it and you can become healthier.
But few people really know about its evil twin. There's another thing that's called the nocebo effect. People are told that they'll experience side effects for a sugar pill. And guess what happens? They start to experience the side effects from a pill that contains absolutely nothing except for sugar. Why? Because the expectations of the human change the biology of the human.
The brain predicted suffering. The body followed. Someone can get side effects from a sugar pill because they think they will get side effects. They don't know it's a sugar pill. They think it's something different. And they're going, oh, you might have explosive diarrhea. And this person gets explosive diarrhea because they think that they will. You might get a tummy ache.
So they get a tummy ache because they think that they will. Isn't that crazy? Like, why are we not taught this shit as children? That what we believe in, we will usually create. Now, think about this. What if millions of people, hundreds of millions of people are living under a psychological nocebo?
People can make themselves sick because they think that they're sick, but does that also mean that if we walk through life expecting disappointment or rejection or betrayal or failure, that we might unknowingly be creating that in our lives? For sure. Let me give an example. Imagine there's two people that start a business, right?
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Chapter 5: How does your brain filter reality?
For me, I'll just be fully transparent with you. I have a deep-seated belief
from 40 something years of my life and seeing how the shittiest things that have happened to me 10 or 15 or 20 years down the road turned out to be the biggest blessings or the biggest learning moments or these things that had to happen to me for me to learn and grow, I have come to this deep seated belief like all 40 trillion of my cells believe that life is always working out for me.
No matter how hard it gets, no matter what happens, And that scares the shit out of me because I know that some really painful things can happen in my life coming into the future. I still will have the perspective and want to have this perspective that it's always working out for me. I remember a few years ago when our dog Toby died, he was 13 and a half.
A couple of days later, we had to go to the exact same vet and we had Bear, who was one of our, you know, he's only about six months old at the time, had to be neutered or fixed or whatever they call it, right? And he had to go through the whole conversation with us. He knew Toby had just died.
And he's sitting us with Bear and he says, hey, listen, I know you've had a really hard week, but I just have to tell you when we put a dog under, there are obviously some risks and Bear's a smaller dog, so there's more risk. And I was like, yeah, I know. And then I left and I went home and I didn't hear back from him for like six hours.
And I remember the feeling deep inside of me like, oh my God, like I hope Bear's okay. I hope something doesn't happen. I can't deal with this. But then I was also talking to myself and I was like, hey, if something ever does happen to Bear, if this is what has to happen, I know and I trust that God and the universe has something I'm supposed to learn from it.
but I just really don't want to learn a fucking lesson this week. I was just like, I said that to myself. I was like, God, if something has to happen, I know that it's working out of my benefit. I know that there's something I'm supposed to learn, but I just, please, I do not want to learn another lesson this week because losing Toby was hard enough and I don't want to have to lose Bear as well.
And so that is my overall perspective of life. That is a real true way that I try to look at life. And luckily, nothing happened to Baron. He is perfectly healthy, beautiful little teeny tiny dog. But had something happened, I would have still looked at it that way. It would have been hard. I would have grieved. I would have cried. I would have been destroyed from losing my dog.
But I would have been able to look at it and go, what am I supposed to learn from this? Because I know deeply inside of me that everything that's happening is happening for me and not to me. And so when you look at it, the real deep question we should ask ourself is, can I trust myself to grow through whatever happens?
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